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Global Horse Trading: IMF loans for votes in the United Nations Security Council
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The authors investigated whether temporary members of the United Nations Security Council receive favorable treatment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) using panel data for 197 countries over the period from 1951 to 2004.About:
This article is published in European Economic Review.The article was published on 2009-10-01. It has received 361 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Horse trading.read more
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IMF conditionality and development policy space, 1985–2014
TL;DR: The authors revisited two long-standing controversies: Has the policy content of IMF programs evolved to allow for more policy space? Do these programmes now allow for the protection of labour and social policies?
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The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
TL;DR: This article examined the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally found that projects that are potentially politically motivated, such as those granted to governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank, are no more likely, on average, to get a negative quality rating than other projects.
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Do the IMF and the World Bank influence voting in the UN General Assembly
Axel Dreher,Jan-Egbert Sturm +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of the IMF and the World Bank on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly was analyzed empirically using panel data for 188 countries over the 1970-2008 period.
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IMF conditionality: theory and evidence
TL;DR: The authors analyzes whether and to what extent reliance on conditionality is appropriate to guarantee the revolving character of the resources of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and presents theoretical arguments in favor of conditionality, and those against the use of conditions.
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